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Pronunciation / Transliteration: allutʃinaˈtsjone
"Aveva la sensazione di avere un'allucinazione."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present, typically arising from disorders of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs.
"The patient experienced visual and auditory hallucinations after taking the medication." - 2
In artificial intelligence, a confident response by a neural network that does not seem to be justified by its training data.
"The language model produced a hallucination by citing a completely fabricated research paper."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'hallucinatio', meaning a wandering of the mind or abstraction, stemming from the verb 'hallucinari' (to wander in mind, dream, or talk idly). Entering the English language in the 17th century, the term initially meant to be mistaken or deceived, before evolving in the 19th century to specifically denote sensory perceptions experienced without external stimuli.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Hallucination" is said worldwide
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hallucination
Transliteration: aly.sy.na.sjɔ̃
"Il souffrait d'hallucinations visuelles."
Halluzination
Transliteration: halutsiˈnaːtsioːn
"Die Droge rief starke Halluzinationen hervor."
allucinazione
Transliteration: allutʃinaˈtsjone
"Aveva la sensazione di avere un'allucinazione."
alucinación
Transliteration: aluθinaˈsjon
"Tuvo una alucinación auditiva muy extraña."
alucinação
Transliteration: alusiwɐˈsɐ̃w
"A febre alta pode causar alucinações."
भ्रम
Transliteration: bhram
"उसे अजीबोगरीब भ्रम होने लगे।"
幻觉
Transliteration: huàn jué
"人工智能有时会产生幻觉。"
환각
Transliteration: hwan-gak
"그 환자는 심각한 환각을 겪었다."
幻覚
Transliteration: genkaku
"その薬は幻覚を引き起こす可能性がある。"
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